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With his own blueprint method of delivering songs, Thomas Hunter wraps you in a blanket of seduction and passion. His warm, voice oozes through you in waves leaving you totally at his mercy and begging for more! Thomas is an energetic crowd pleaser. One you are sure to enjoy!!! His repertoire spans from Al Green to the Black crows and everything beyond and in between!! A night of fun for Family and friends and also a great Date night!! Thomas Hunter brings a night of fun, class and professionalism.
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Ryan Mayer
The bracket has been released and the prognostication has begun. As you fill out your bracket and take in advice from your favorite sources on which teams to pick, allow us to add one more voice to the mix with our bracket preview series. We'll go region by region and break down each and every match-up on the road to the Final Four.
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#1 North Carolina vs #16 Texas Southern
The Tar Heels have been one of the best teams in the country all season. A 16-seed has never beaten a one. There's enough experience, scoring and size on this UNC squad to make sure that continues to be the case. Thank you for playing Texas Southern, here's a lovely parting gift.
Pick- UNC
#8 Arkansas vs #9 Seton Hall
The Razorbacks return to the NCAA Tournament after last year's absence while the Pirates are back for the second straight year. Arkansas' offense has been prolific averaging 79.8 points per game and ranking in the Top 30 in offensive efficiency (116.6, 26th DI). Seton Hall has been better on the defensive end when adjusting for efficiency allowing just 95.9 points per 100 possessions. Both teams are experience laden with junior and senior leaders. 8/9 is always tough to call, I'm going to go with Seton Hall, who was red-hot to end the year.
Pick- Seton Hall
#5 Minnesota vs #12 Middle Tennessee State
You probably remember the Blue Raiders for killing your bracket last year. They're back to do it again with virtually the same group. Their opponent won't be caught by surprise this year though. The Golden Gophers under head coach Richard Pitino have been quietly one of the best defensive teams in the country posting a Top 20 defensive efficiency rating. The Blue Raiders are solid defensively (47th defensive efficiency) and are more efficient on offense than the Gophers. This feels like a toss-up as well. I think the addition of forward Jacorey Williams has been huge for MTSU this year and puts them over the top here.
Pick- Middle Tennessee State
#4 Butler vs #13 Winthrop
Butler going to Butler. Efficient offense, solid defense, slow, plodding tempo. Names on the jerseys change, but the style doesn't. They face a Winthrop team that features a star guard duo in the diminutive senior (5'7″) Keon Johnson and junior big guard (6'8″) Xavier Cooks. The Eagles like to play at a faster tempo and light up the scoreboard (79.7 PPG), but it's always easier to slow a game down than to speed it up. Expect the Bulldogs to slow the pace, force Winthrop to execute in the half court. Butler gets the win, but Winthrop makes it entertaining.
Pick- Butler
#6 Cincinnati vs. #11 Kansas State
I'll keep this one simple. Mick Cronin's group will choke the life out of an opponent on defense, giving up just 60.8 points per game this season and posting the 11th best defensive efficiency rating in the nation. Kansas State has been solid on both sides of the ball and looked good in the First Four win over Wake Forest. It will likely be a low-scoring game, but, the Bearcats should handle K-State and move on to the Round of 32.
Pick- Cincinnati
#3 UCLA vs #14 Kent State
The nation's highest scoring offense at 90.4 points per game (3rd best in offensive efficiency) faces a Golden Flashes team whose defense isn't its strength. Kent State does feature a double-double machine in senior forward Jimmy Hall (18.9 PPG 10.5 RPG), but they don't have the horses to run with the Bruins.
Pick- UCLA
#7 Dayton vs #10 Wichita State
Whoooooo boy. If I'm Archie Miller I'm wondering what the committee has against my family. Last year, the committee under-seeded the Shockers as an 11-seed against Sean Miller's (Archie's brother) 6th seeded Arizona team. Now, the Flyers get a 30-4 Shockers team as a 10-seed. That, however doesn't mean this is an automatic win for Wichita State. The Flyers feature a three-pronged attack of guards Scoochie Smith (13.5 PPG 4.5 APG), Charles Cooke (16.1 PPG 5.1 RPG) and forward Kendall Pollard (14.1 PPG 5.1 RPG). The Shockers also rely on a freshman (Landry Shamet) and sophomore (Markus McDuffie) to handle the scoring load. That said, there's a lot of balance to the Shockers attack (six guys between 7.2 and 11.8 PPG) and these situations tend to be when the Shockers shine the most. I'll take the Shockers in a tight one.
Pick- Wichita State
#2 Kentucky vs #15 Northern Kentucky
Welcome to your first tournament Norse! You get the lovely prize of being the sacrificial lamb to John Calipari's marauding group of future NBA picks. Oh, and the Wildcats are playing their best basketball as of late. Yeah, Kentucky's the pick.
Pick- Kentucky
Round of 32
#1 North Carolina vs #9 Seton Hall
The Tar Heels offense, and length is too much to handle for the Pirates in this one. Roy Williams' group advances.
Pick- UNC
#12 Middle Tennessee State vs #4 Butler
The Blue Raiders play in the half court and actually play at a slower pace than the Bulldogs. So, they'll be perfectly comfortable getting down into the muck and trading blows here. After failing to advance to the Sweet 16 last year, the Blue Raiders pull it off in their second go-round with Giddy Potts, Jacorey Williams and Reggie Upshaw leading the way.
Pick- MTSU
#6 Cincinnati vs #3 UCLA
This would be a significant defensive test for the Bruins and I'd be interested to see how this plays out. In the end, the UCLA offense is too much for the Bearcats to handle and they advance to the Sweet 16.
Pick- UCLA
#2 Kentucky vs #10 Wichita State
Part of me is rooting for this match-up simply as a re-do of the 2014 bracket when the Shockers got screwed by the committee placing Kentucky as an 8-seed in their bracket when they were 35-1 and a 1-seed. Getting a rematch this year would be great, but the Shockers aren't as experienced as in year's past and I think the Wildcats would be able to handle them.
Pick- Kentucky
Sweet 16
#1 North Carolina vs. #12 Middle Tennessee State
As nice of a story as this would be, this is where the magical run ends. The Tar Heels win this one going away.
Pick- UNC
#3 UCLA vs #2 Kentucky
You like offense? This game is for you. We saw this game played in December when the Bruins won a 97-92 barn burner at Rupp Arena. Similar contest this time around and UCLA gets the better of Kentucky once again.
Pick- UCLA
Elite Eight- Regional Final
#1 UNC vs #3 UCLA
I reiterate my question. You like offense? How about star power? Lonzo Ball, Justin Jackson, TJ Leaf, Kennedy Meeks. In the end, UNC's experience, and more consistent defense (25th defensive efficiency to UCLA's 78th) puts the Tar Heels over the top for me and sends them to the Final Four. The Tar Heels win the region and advance to Phoenix for the right to try and get back to the National Championship game once again.
Pick- UNC

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IBIZA, Spain, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Michelle Rodriguez and Zac Efron have reunited in Ibiza.
The 36-year-old actress and 26-year-old actor were spotted together as they disembarked a yacht Thursday night. Rodriguez has been vacationing on the autonomous Spanish island with Justin Bieber and other friends, and was seen in a black and white striped bikini as they frolicked on the boat the day before.
It sure looks like Michelle Rodriguez and Zac Efron are still together: http://t.co/RzqCzVcqaB pic.twitter.com/gg57SHZUPH— POPSUGAR (@POPSUGAR) August 1, 2014
Rodriguez and Efron made headlines in early July after they were spotted kissing and cuddling on vacation in Sardinia. The pair are longtime friends, and reportedly have a history of hooking up.
"Michelle is super cool and laid back, and Zac has always been attracted to her because of that," a source said at the time. "Zac likes the fact that she is laid back and he can relate to her. He is attracted to her great attitude. They understand one another."
Rodriguez will appear in Fast & Furious 7 in 2015, while Efron is scheduled to star in an adaptation of John Grisham's The Associate.


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Gracie helped me to pull out some non-holiday items that I had assembled while I recovered, but then I got to thinking how fun it would be to make some special things with a Farmers Market feel. Jo Kincart made this adorable Pig in a Crate so I gave it a try. She gave no instructions so I had to wing it. It is a time consuming item but was also fun to make.
It folds flat and will fit in a 5x7 envelope.
I love the Wood Crate Die and normally when you make the crate it has a bottom but I cut that off so that it could fold down. I added a 3/4" strip to the center to help support the balloon display.
Our community is a dutch community and was founded on the farmers who saw the great resources of planting their vegetables in the rich, muck soil. You may have seen me mention before on my blog how I help to judge the 4-H still exhibits at our local fair the end of August and I get to judge a TON of pig notebooks so I thought this would be the perfect first item I made for this weekends Artisan Show, even if only for display!
The Wood Crate Thinlits Dies can be purchased alone or you can save 10% on the coordinating stamp set WOOD WORDS.
Do you see the words on the stamp set? FARMERS MARKET!! YES!!! PERFECT!!!
Here is the list of supplies that I used:
Stamps: Balloon Celebration, Butterfly Basics, Daisy Delight
Card Stock: Mint Macron (R), Blushing Bride, Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Whisper White, Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack
Ink: Blushing Bride, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake
Fun Stuff: 2" Circle Punch, 1 1/2" Circle Punch, Word Window Punch (R), Balloon Punch, Bitty Butterfly Punch (R), Owl Builder Punch (R), Blossom Builder Punch, Daisy Punch, Happy Birthday Thinlits Die,
Fun Stuff: 2" Circle Punch, 1 1/2" Circle Punch, Word Window Punch (R), Balloon Punch, Bitty Butterfly Punch (R), Owl Builder Punch (R), Blossom Builder Punch, Daisy Punch, Happy Birthday Thinlits Die,
Wood Crate Thinlits Die, Tombo Glue, Glue Dots, White Gel Pen (R), Basic Rhinestones
If you live near our community we would love to have you stop into the Terra Square Farmer's Market on the corner of Chicago Drive and School Street in Hudsonville, MI. Dale will have his Soaps & More booth as well (and BTW - he is doing fabulously!!)
You can shop with me on line 24/7 - just click HEREDon't forget to use the Hostess Code when checking out!
However if your order is $150 or over you can be your own hostess and receive the 10% Hostess Rewards. IN FACT - if your order is that big you will WANT to purchase the Starter Kit because you will save a TON on the special Stampin' Up! has going on during the month of June.
Don't forget about the STARTER KIT DEAL through July. Just Click HERE for more details
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NORTHRIDGE – UCSB's Allie Ariniello came into her senior season without a goal in her career. She scored three times in the Gauchos first three matches and then was held scoreless for several encounters.
Ariniello scored the only goal in UCSB's 1-0 win over Cal State Northridge on Sunday afternoon. It was her fourth score of the season, and of her career, and it gave Beth Ritter her sixth shutout. The Gauchos are now 8-6-1 overall and 2-2 in the Big West.
The game's only goal came in the 14th minute on a hectic sequence. UCSB's Angelisa Cortez forced a CSUN turnover and broke in on goal. Her shot was saved by an on-rushing Cynthia Tafoya, but the carrom found the foot of Ariniello. She then took a touch and put the ball into an open net.
Both teams had five corner kicks and UCSB had 10 fouls to six for CSUN. Sophomore Lyndsey Preston saw the yellow card in the 90th minute of action.
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Bots are complicated. They're made to process repetitive actions autonomously and can be fairly easy to build, but they aren't always working on the side of good. Here's what you need to know.
Each year, EContent magazine compiles a list of the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry.
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Mar 19, 2012
Word-of-mouth has long been the best way to advertise a product, but how long does that buzz last -- especially in the digital age? A new study says that customers-turned-volunteer "brand advocates" are still much more likely to buy and recommend products than they were before they got involved in the marketing campaign a year before.
The study "Advocacy Over the Long Term: Brand Advocates Give Brands Long-Term Benefits," from the social media marketing agency BzzAgent, Inc., shows that when a campaign wins over a volunteer advocate, the good will can last for a while. For example, 91% of those who said right after the campaign that they were likely to recommend the product remained likely to recommend it a year later. Of those brand advocates who said immediately after the campaign that they planned to buy the product, 88% were still giving the product a spot on their shopping lists after a year.
The Boston-based BzzAgent is the social marketing division of dunnhumby, a customer data mining company that itself is a subsidiary of British supermarket giant Tesco, PLC. BzzAgent's brand advocates are people who give the company information about themselves and are matched up with free samples of products and services based on that information. BzzAgent then encourages the brand advocates to share their honest opinions about the products with friends and family in person and through online social media, such as Facebook, blogs, and videos. The advocates are also supposed to disclose in these conversations that they got the products for free through BzzAgent.
If the conversations happen offline, the advocates write brief reports for BzzAgent. They don't need to do that after online conversations, though, because the company can gather that information directly using means such as Twitter hashtags, explains Brian Cavoli, BzzAgent's director of marketing.
The more conversations the users start about the products they receive, the more free samples brand advocates can look forward to. Meanwhile, the companies that use BzzAgent's 750,000 brand advocates get feedback on their products, information on potential customers, and a marketing campaign that reaches the brand advocates and everyone they talk to.
"I think this is a continuation of old-school word-of-mouth marketing," says Malcolm Faulds, BzzAgent SVP of marketing.
The big difference between offline word-of-mouth marketing and conversations that happen in the digital world is that companies can observe online buzz much more directly and mine information from it much more efficiently. This ability to track and measure social media campaigns is what's new, Faulds says.
BzzAgent conducted the study because it knew about the short-term effects of its campaigns but didn't have any data on the long-term effects of brand advocacy, Cavoli says. The study looked at eight BzzAgent campaigns for consumer packaged goods, measuring the advocates' opinions every 3 months for a year after the campaigns ended. The findings suggest that positive opinions of a product, likelihood of recommending it, and intention to purchase all increase for brand advocates during the campaign and stay near those new levels for at least a year.
So how do these campaigns cause such lasting effects? It's about "social capital" and setting up good, memorable experiences for customers, Faulds says. People want to brag, to share information with their peers about new things they haven't heard about yet, he says. That feeling is part of what makes talking about products and services rewarding for brand advocates. And "if you can carve out a really deep engaging experience for customers" -- such as creating a unique online event for them to be part of -- "they will remember it for a really long time," Faulds explains.
After this longevity study, Faulds expects more accurate marketing models to be developed with longer time periods in mind, rather than being focused on the short-term spikes that campaigns can cause.
Social media campaigns can make it easier for companies to get information about customers and connect with them, but they are not as simple to carry out as they may seem, says social media consultant Jay Baer.
Baer's company, Convince & Convert, LLC, has worked with clients such as Sony, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Allstate Insurance Co., and the California Travel & Tourism Commission to create social media programs. He says companies have to understand that they're not going to create loyal fans "out of thin air" with social media the way they might be able to with long-established forms of push advertising, such as television, radio, and print. That's because online social media marketing can only work by pulling customers to opt in, which attracts mainly people who are already interested in the product, Baer explains. Social media campaigns are usually better for retaining customers rather than gaining new ones, he says.
The other thing that companies must realize in order to run effective social media programs is that "the point of social media is to activate fans, not to collect them like baseball cards," Baer says. A company's number of Facebook fans or Twitter followers is not as important as how well the company motivates those fans and followers to remain good customers. Companies that understand this give their fans a series of motivating "assignments," such as uploading a photo or sharing information with friends, Baer says. In this way, they create the conditions for those memorable experiences that Faulds described earlier.
The nature of the product or service also has something to do with how excited people can get about it, Baer says. Companies that are in the business of, for example, travel or fashion, "things that make more of a statement about who you are as a person," can find it easier to connect with their customers through social media marketing than companies that sell more functional products and services, Baer says.
Baer also encourages companies to thoughtfully choose which social media platforms to use, because each one has different strengths. "There are so many different places to interact with customers and potential customers now," he says. "I get fearful that companies are putting too many eggs in the default Facebook basket." Baer points to Whole Foods Market IP, L.P.'s use of the Pinterest site as an example of an effective matching of content -- in this case, mostly photos of food -- and medium. He adds that companies should decide where to start by asking customers what sites they prefer if long-term success is to be had.
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Expedition Four
120 Day Report
Monday, 18 March 2002
2 p.m. Houston, 11 p.m. Moscow
Time on orbit: 102 days, 21 hours 40 minutes
Saturday, 6 April 2002
8 a.m. Houston, 5 p.m. Moscow
Time on orbit: 121 days, 15 hours 40 minutes
As you can
see from the times above, I started this note soon after our 100th
day in orbit. I had hoped to make this a "100 day report,"
but it has turned into the "120 day report!" In this report
I hope to give you a feel for what it has been like the past 120
days for a "first time" expedition crew member.
of Endeavour, STS-108/UF-1: December 5, 2001
The launch was the first time for me on the middeck and from there
our view is a row of lockers with no outside reference. It surprised
me that I noticed the roll shortly after liftoff more than I remember
when I was on the flight deck, where we can see outside through
the forward and overhead windows.
The docked
phase was very high paced and things did not slow down until the
Shuttle undocked. When the Shuttle is docked, there is always a
limited time in which to accomplish everything (hand-over, transfer,
robotics), so there was always the pressure of doing all of the
assigned tasks as well as "handing over" with Expedition
Three before the hatches closed for the last time. Yuri told us
that it would be a strange feeling when the Shuttle undocked and
we were the only ones left. It was like a fast paced family reunion
that suddenly came to an end. It also felt like the first day of
a Naval deployment where we knew that we just started a long journey
and couldn't even begin to imagine the end. The pace did slow a
bit for the holidays, but quickly picked up again as we prepared
for two space walks (EVA's) in January, as well as completed unloading
of the "Progress" (Russian cargo ship).
"Us" on Station
The holidays were a nice break from the rapid pace of a Shuttle
mission. I kept thinking about what several experienced expedition
crew members had told me; the Shuttle mission is a sprint, and the
Station mission is a marathon. Of course, being away from family
during the holidays is always tough. It was very hard for me to
be away from my family, but I couldn't help but think of all of
the service men and women that were away from their families as
well. And I also couldn't help but think about the tens of thousands
of people that were missing friends and family over the holidays
because of the terrorist acts of September 11th. And for them there
would be no future reunion. I suddenly felt very fortunate to have
a healthy family on Earth, knowing that they were sharing the holidays
with loved ones.
We spent most
of the holidays catching up on sleep, writing e-mail, watching movies
and calling friends and family using an internet phone application
that uses our high-data rate communication system, otherwise known
as "Ku" (frequency band in which it operates). It was
very special to be able to call family and friends, but what became
most entertaining were peoples' reactions when we said we were calling
from space! I didn't expect to get the chance to talk to so many
visiting relatives of my friends on Earth!
Our days are based on "Universal Time" (Greenwich Mean
Time) and start with an 0600 wakeup and end at 2130. Sometimes we
shift our schedule to adjust to another upcoming event, such as
a Russian EVA, Shuttle docking, or Soyuz docking. We do this to
either maintain good coverage over Russian communication sites or
to line up our schedule with a visiting vehicle (whose workdays
are determined by their launch time, which is determined by our
Each day we
get several messages that we need to read that are part of a daily
"execute package." We access everything through one of
the many laptops we have, and can print something if desired. We
also review daily news and we need to import files that update our
"inventory management system." We have a computer-based
system that keeps track of everything on board. Without such an
accounting system, most of our time would be spent hunting for some
piece of equipment that got stuffed behind a panel by a previous
crew…or by ourselves, just like you might misplace something
at home. Unlike at home, however, we know that it is "in the
house" somewhere!
Between 0600 and 0800 we read the daily mail, power up and/or restart
some of the two dozen computers we have, "wash" up, eat
breakfast, review the day's schedule and prepare any questions we
may have for a morning conference with our teams on the ground in
Houston (U.S. Mission Control), Huntsville (Payload Operations Control
Center) and Moscow (Russian Mission Control), as they prepare questions
and notes for us. We usually have about 2.5 hours of exercise every
day and an hour for lunch. Breakfast and dinner do not show on our
daily electronic schedule, but we do have time reserved after wakeup
and before sleep for those meals. We usually try to fit dinner in
between 1730 and 1830.
We have a combination
of Russian and American food and it provides us with quite a large
assortment. Yury said that our tastes would gradually change and
he was right. The spicy food, like shrimp cocktail, is not so spicy
anymore. The teriyaki chicken tastes just a bit different. I was
used to tastes changing during Shuttle flights, but those changes
I could associate mainly with how a "stuffy head" can affect your
taste when you cannot smell as well. Also, some foods that we really
liked on Earth are suddenly not appealing anymore. I am glad that
we have such an assortment to choose from! Yury says that our tastes
will continue to change. I still can't wait to try some pizza when
we return!!
Our daily activities
include maintenance (preventive and when something breaks unexpectedly),
experiments/payloads, inventory audits, taking pictures inside and
outside. Depending on future events, we may operate the SSRMS (Station
robot arm) and/or study material for upcoming space walks or robotic
activity. Our "planning team" assembles all of these varied
activities on the ground. I am constantly amazed at how they can
put together so many activities while working with three different
centers, different time zones and different languages! I really
enjoy taking pictures of our beautiful planet. The best days are
when I have accomplished everything on the schedule, plus a little
bit more, and I've been able to take several pictures throughout
the day!! A few times I was disappointed that I missed taking a
picture, but now I understand that on an expedition flight there
will always be another chance!
Tallest Peak
One morning I happened to be up early. I glanced at our world map
and saw that we'd be passing near Mt. Everest soon. I checked the
computer, realized that we were in an attitude that would allow
me to open the window shutter and there was Mt. Everest! It almost
seemed to jump out at me. The low sun angle (it was close to orbital
sunrise) gave tremendous relief to the mountains. It was just one
of those sights that will be forever burned into my brain!
Flying through Station is more fun than I thought it would be. We
fly like Superman from one end to the other, being careful to know
when to slow down and what big pieces of structure to miss (if you
hit something hard, it still hurts!). We get to know our favorite
handrails and paths from one place to another. After a month I tried
using the ceiling. It seemed as though I had discovered another
new Station! Everything looked different from the ceiling view,
and I discovered that in some ways it was a better route (better
hand-holds, fewer obstructions)! It still is a little disorienting
when I am upside down and try to instantly decide which way to turn,
but I am learning!
Another interesting
trick is to "fly formation." Pick something to translate
with, then let it go and fly on its "wing." You really
have to watch out how fast you go…stopping can get pretty messy
sometimes! My grandmother used to say "The faster I go, the
behinder I get!" That is also true for flying in space! That
idea came in handy during the EVA's.
Space Walk: January 25, 2002
I was a little nervous before my first space walk. I took that as
a good sign. I felt it helped me stay on my toes a little more and
take it slowly. In the weeks prior, I asked several other folks
who had been on space walks before for their advice. The most common
advice was to "take it slow" and/or "not to go fast, slow down."
Things move in response to an outside force. The more force you
use, the faster it will accelerate. You control best by slowing
down. I am thankful for the advice!
The Russian
EVA suit (Orlan) and U.S. EVA suit (EMU) provide the same basic
capabilities, but have some important differences. Each suit reflects
the mission for which they were designed: the Orlan for a crew of
two and less pre-breathe requirements, and the EMU for a larger
crew and for tasks requiring more dexterity. Because we go to a
much lower pressure in the space suits, we have "pre-breathe" requirements
to prevent the bends or decompression sickness, the same things
that concern scuba divers. We are at risk at the beginning of our
"dive," where divers are at risk at the end of theirs. The Station
is pressurized close to sea level, about 14.7 psi. The Orlan is
pressurized to about 5.6 psi and the EMU to about 4.3 psi. Lower
pressure means more mobility and dexterity, but the disadvantage
is a longer pre-breathe protocol. The Orlan prebreathe is shorter,
but the suit is harder to work in as we are working against higher
The advantages
of the Orlan include faster donning and it is also designed to be
"self-donning." You enter the suit through the back and
you can close the back without assistance. All of the Orlans are
nearly identical with the exception of gloves. Sizing is accomplished
through sizing straps in the arms and legs, and can be done in about
an hour.
The EMU is
pressurized to 4.3 psi and we need someone to help us put it on.
It is nearly "custom fit," but the size can be changed
using different sizing rings. In fact, I used the same suit that
Dan Tani used on UF-1 but with different sized arms, legs and gloves.
During STS-110 (8A), Rex Walheim will use the suit I used, with
again different sizing and different gloves. The lower pressure
in the EMU makes working in the suit easier and the gloves give
you better dexterity.
Space Walk: February 20, 2002
In January Houston told us that Carl and I would get the opportunity
to go outside again, but this time in the U.S. suit, or "EMU." Many
people on the ground worked endless hours preparing us for this
walk. Not only did they send up procedures and pictures, but they
also sent up special files that we used in a software program called
"DOUG" that allowed us to perform our EVA on a laptop. It has the
same graphics used in a "Virtual Reality Laboratory" at the Johnson Space Center, where we had trained for EVA's and robotics before
launch. We had several weeks to prepare equipment and ourselves
for the walk. It was the second time that the U.S. airlock had been
used and the first time by a Station crew without the Shuttle present
(often called a "deferred EVA"). We did a dry-run of the procedures
the week before, worked out some kinks, then went out for real a
few days later. Yury suited us up and then passed over the communication
to Joe Tanner who acted as our "IVA" during the walk. Yury was inside
controlling cameras, much like I did when he and Carl went out on
their EVA mid-January. It was very successful and, once again, we
are very thankful to our great team on the ground that prepared
us and guided us through the EVA.
I felt more
comfortable during this walk, perhaps because of the extra mobility
of the EMU; perhaps because I had more experience in the EMU. I
wasn't as tired as I was after the Orlan. Having both suits on board
gives us some flexibility that will no doubt come in handy in the
future. In fact, one could say that the quick-donning and short
pre-breathe features of the Orlan already was demonstrated when
Expedition 3 had to do an EVA prior to our launch on STS-108. They
removed part of a seal that was preventing a Progress from docking
One very important aspect of long duration space flight are the
mental challenges associated with living in the same "can"
with two other people. I finally realized the other day that living
in the same enclosure with two other people for more than three
months is a pretty unique experience. Working closely with someone
is a big jump from an acquaintance. Living with someone is a big
jump from working with them. And living and working together with
only two other people for several months is yet another big jump.
If you have a bad day, you can't just go for a walk. I have come
to accept that all of us will have (and have had) good days and
bad days. Frank Culbertson told us some good advice…some days
you just need "to let go"…meaning (I think!!) that
sometimes some things will get to you…but you have to let them
go. And soon you will realize how insignificant they are and will
probably laugh that they even bothered you in the first place. But
I have also found that it is important to let the others know when
something bothers you, because just like any other relationship…whether
with a friend or spouse…if you let things go all the time,
they will collect inside and always come out at the wrong time.
So, the balancing act of life is the same in space as it is on Earth!!
and Hubble
It was fun following the STS-109/Hubble mission. The ground sent
up daily reports on their progress and we were also able to watch
their launch real-time via a live video feed over the Ku band to
one of our computers. We also got to talk to them after their EVA's.
It was neat knowing that for a short time there were 10 people in
space…and even though we were in very different orbits, I felt
somehow closer to them knowing that we were in "space"
together. It is also hard to believe that their mission has come
and gone.
We just got news that our Shuttle flight home has been delayed about
one month. That should send us over the six-month mark and we should
break Shannon Lucid's U.S. record of 188 continuous days in space.
That feels nice to be able to share in a record…but I sure
do miss my family. During a deployment in the Navy, it is difficult
to return home, but it is always possible. It is definitely different
when your only ride home is with a spacecraft that also happens
to be your only lifeboat when the Shuttle isn't present. Again,
though, I think of all the men and women serving our country that
are deployed right now in far way places, and my job seems pretty
easy. I also know that the immediate families of these people have
perhaps the toughest job. And I know without a doubt that my wife
has the toughest job between the two of us with three little ones
at home!
Ship Arrives: March 26, 2002
Every four to six months a Russian unmanned cargo ship,
called a "Progress," arrives bringing supplies including fresh fruit
and care packages from home. When I was on a Naval deployment on
the carrier, I remembered that we always knew when the "Carrier
On-board Delivery" airplane, or COD, landed on board. Its arrival
was announced over the loudspeaker, including how much mail was
on board. It was also nice after we did underway replenishment (UNREP)
with other cargo ships because it usually included fresh food. My
experience on carriers was all before e-mail and phones on ships.
I was amazed at how much I anticipated the arrival of this Progress.
I thought that because we had e-mail and the "phone," that I wouldn't
think the Progress was such a big deal…but it was! I underestimated
how much I would anticipate the arrival of fresh fruit and care
packages…something from Earth…something from home…that my friends
and family had touched not too long ago!!
The entire
approach and docking is automatic, but the crew can take over and
complete the docking remotely if something doesn't look right during
the approach. We simply follow the approach based on time and do
our best to follow the vehicle with cameras located inside and outside.
Yuri and Carl stood by the "TORU" remote control system
on board and were ready to take over if necessary. Everything went
well and after pressure checks we opened the hatch about midnight.
I felt as if it was Christmas morning! Everything was tightly packed,
but we managed to get to our care packages after about an hour.
I honestly forgot that we hadn't been visited for the past three
months…and something "fresh" from home was VERY welcome!!
We got new books on CD, cards, letters, pictures and some new DVD's.
Launch: April 4, 2002
Today is the scheduled launch of STS-110, which will be bringing
up the S-zero truss segment. It will form the backbone of the truss
structure that will eventually hold the four solar array "wings"
of the U.S. segment. I am very much looking forward to the arrival
of Atlantis and her crew. They promise to bring new care packages
from home, fresh "smells" of the Earth and old friends.
We know that the work pace will once again speed up, but we are
ready! We worked many hours together on the ground developing procedures
to use the Space Station robotic arm (SSRMS) as a "cherry picker"
as we maneuver space walkers "flying" on the end of the
arm. This will be the first time that this new arm will be used
in such a capacity. The SSRMS will first be used to install the
S-zero truss, then we will continue to use it for all 4 space walks.
Later, we heard
that the launch was delayed. It is disappointing, but I am fairly
familiar with launch delays and understand what the crew is feeling
right now. There are many things that need to come together before
the SRB's ignite. Some we can control, some we can't.
As we await
the arrival of Atlantis, I wish all of you a great weekend!
Dan Bursch
April 6, 2002
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CHESTER, Penn. – Sounders FC went into Philadelphia down four starters who did not make the trip. Over the course of the match, they lost two more to red-card ejections, but still walked out with one point after a 2-2 draw.
Eddie Johnson and Mauro Rosales scored for the Sounders and Danny Cruz scored two goals one minute apart to end Seattle's shutout streak at 285 consecutive minutes as the Sounders moved to 1-3-3 on the season.
"I thought we had some chances earlier in the game that we should have done a little more with and obviously they came back and had chances," Sounders FC head coach Sigi Schmid said. "It could have been 5-5. It was a pretty open game, a pretty attack-minded game."
Things started off in Seattle's favor in the match and they were rewarded with an early goal.
In the 10th minute, Rosales sent a corner kick into the box and Johnson got free for a header that caught Zac MacMath off guard and crossed the line before he could get to it to make the stop and the Sounders took the 1-0 lead.
The goal was Johnson's second of the year and it was the team's first headed goal of the year. Johnson had nine such goals in 2012, the most in MLS since the league started keeping track of headed goals in 2003. It was the first time Rosales and Johnson connected on a goal this season, too, after Rosales assisted on six of Johnson's goals in 2012.
"It is good for confidence. I missed three games, and at the end of the day the good goalscorers have rhythm just playing game after game after game. That's how you get your sharpness and confidence," Johnson said. "I've been trying to make a difference the last couple games, we have been playing some good soccer, and I just want to make an impact."
The Sounders held that lead until halftime, but not without some luck after the Union twice hit the frame.
In the 32nd minute, Jack McInerney nearly pulled that goal back with a header off a cross from Sheanon Williams, but caught the top of the crossbar and it skipped away for a goal kick.
Michael Farfan had a chance in the 38th minute, too, but Jhon Kennedy Hurtado slid in to block the shot away for a corner kick. On the corner, Amobi Okugo hit a header in the middle of the box, but it pinged off the far post and Jeff Parke missed high with his side-volley attempt off the rebound.
Cruz finally equalized in the 50th minute, ending Michael Gspurning's shutout streak at 285 minutes.
Conor Casey got his head to a McInerney cross and hit the post but the rebound fell to Cruz on the right side and he powered a shot inside the far post for a goal.
Moments later, Cruz added another, chesting down a clearance by Traore and knocking it in for a goal in the 51st minute to put the Union up 2-1.
They were the two quickest goals allowed in Sounders FC history.
"It was a very tough game for us on defense. Especially after 30 minutes into the game they came in and took a couple chances but we did well until the end of the first half," Gspurning said. "We had a really bad start of the second half. It was completely unnecessary for us. You should be more awake after the first goal."
Seattle bounced back, turning the tide when Mario Martinez subbed into the match in the 62nd minute.
Martinez led Leo Gonzalez into the box up the left side and Gonzalez crossed the ball to the middle where Rosales spun a left-footed side-volley for his first goal of the season, evening up the score in the 64th minute at 2-2.
"We know we are a team that creates chances," said Johnson, who was right next to Rosales when he scored. "I thought we weathered the storm."
Things got chippy in the 84th minute when Sheanon Williams took umbrage to Neagle. After the two exchanged shoves, Williams and Neagle were both shown red cards and each side was down to 10 men.
DeAndre Yedlin, meanwhile, was sent off in second-half stoppage time for a foul in the middle of the field and the match finished 10v9.
The Sounders were already without regular starters Shalrie Joseph, Steve Zakuani and Obafemi Martins due to injury and Osvaldo Alonso after his wife gave birth on Friday to their second child – a daughter named Paulina. Some of them are expected to rejoin the team for their next match on Wednesday in Kansas City.
Sounders FC – Eddie Johnson (Mauro Rosales) 10; Mauro Rosales (Leo Gonzalez, Mario Martinez) 64.
Union – Danny Cruz 50; Danny Cruz 51.
Sounders FC – Lamar Neagle (ejection) 84; DeAndre Yedlin (ejection) 91+; Eddie Johnson (caution) 92+.
Union – Michael Farfan (caution) 43; Gabriel Farfan (caution) 81; Sheanon Williams (ejection) 84.
Sounders FC – Michael Gspurning, DeAndre Yedlin, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, Djimi Traore, Leo Gonzalez, Mauro Rosales (David Estrada 83), Servando Carrasco, Brad Evans (Andy Rose 74), Alex Caskey (Mario Martinez 62), Lamar Neagle, Eddie Johnson.
Union – Zac MacMath, Sheanon Williams, Jeff Parke (Gabriel Farfan 46+), Amobi Okugo, Raymon Gaddis, Danny Cruz (Antoine Hoppenot 72), Brian Carroll, Keon Daniel, Michael Farfan, Jack McInerney (Sebastien Le Toux 85), Conor Casey.


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- 6 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
- 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of chicken soup (reduced fat works great)
- 1 cup milk (we used skim and it worked perfectly)
- 4 ounces sliced ham 4 ounces sliced Swiss cheese
- 1 (8 ounce) package herbed dry bread stuffing mix
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
Thursday, January 5, 2012
New Years Resolution: Cook More Often, Spend Less Time Doing It
6 comments:
- Kendra said...
I love cordon bleu! I'm gonna give this a try.
- January 5, 2012 at 9:00 AM
I love using my crock pot. My husband and I are so busy most of the time, it's nice to just come home and have it DONE! I'm definitely going to try the rolls and the bacon wrapped chicken, but it all looks delish. Thanks for posting!
- January 5, 2012 at 9:50 AM
I am also one of 6 sisters, so I can't wait to check out the blog!!
- January 5, 2012 at 9:52 AM
- Patty Walsh said...
Great post. I love it when I can make a great meal fast. Are you a fan of Jamie Oliver? He has 2 great books for quick easy delish meals. Meals in minutes, and food revolution. I think you can look them up online too. In the mean time I am checking out that food blog :)
- January 5, 2012 at 10:37 AM
- Lisa Lou said...
The Six-Sister's-Stuff blog is usually my go-to when we're planning the menu for the week. And we usually have 1 or 2 crockpot meals. Seriously so easy. We got two (well, we KEPT two) from our wedding and I love them both and use both ALL THE TIME. Best invention.
- January 5, 2012 at 11:20 AM
- rebecca said...
genius resolution. best of luck!
- January 5, 2012 at 2:34 PM


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The romantic comedy Parfumerie, adapted by E.P. Dowdall from the Hungarian play Illatszertar by Miklos Laszlo, will have a rare revival as the first theater production of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Lou Moore, Executive Director), for a limited, 29 performance engagement November 26 to December 22. The production, directed by Mark Brokaw, who is currently represented on Broadway with Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, centers on a romance that unfolds through love letters, a perfect homage to the historic Beverly Hills Post Office.
Set during Christmastime, 1937 in Budapest Hungary, the play centers around two bickering employees at an upscale boutique, who have been building an anonymous romantic relationship through letters to one another for two years. This popular comedy has been a favorite in Europe, but is rarely seen in the United States. Written by Hungarian émigré Miklos Laszlo, Parfumerie's charming plot has been adapted to film several times, including The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime, and You've Got Mail, and as the Broadway musical She Loves Me.
Tickets, $49.00-$129.00, can be purchased online at www.thewallis.org, by calling 310-746-4000 or in person at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts box office at 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills.
The cast of Parfumerie is lead by Richard Schiff (Tony Ziegler on "The West Wing"), Eddie Kaye Thomas (American Dad, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas), Deborah Ann Woll (Jessica Hamby on "True Blood") and Arye Gross (TV: Castle, Six Feet Under).
The cast also includes Cheryl Lynn Bowers (world premieres of Adam Rapp, Steve Martin plays); Adam Farabee (Berkeley Rep The Lieutenant of Inishmore SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Award); Andy Goldenberg (films: Jack and Jill, Austin and Ally); Linda Griffin (Broadway: The Drowsy Chaperone; tour: A Chorus Line; 42nd Street, LA: Beauty and the Beast), Jacob Kemp (Signature Theatre Greenwood; Yale), Jackson Moran (Pearl Theatre Company, Yale Repertory Theatre); Tony Pasqualini (South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, Intiman, Mad Men, "Law and Order," "West Wing"); Ariana Shore (Broadway: The Performers); Jayne Taini (TV: "Ave 43," "Mad Men," "ER"); Jill Van Velzer (Pasadena Playhouse The Heiress, also The Matchmaker, Harvey, Boeing Boeing, She Loves Me); and Matt Walton (off-B'way Berger in Hair; "One Life to Live," "All My Children").
One of America's most accomplished directors, Mark Brokaw is currently represented on Broadway with Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella; he also directed the original New York productions of Lynda Barry's The Good Times are Killing Me, Douglas Carter Beane's As Bees in Honey Drown, Lisa Kron's 2.5 Mile Ride, Kenneth Lonergan's This is Our Youth and Lobby Hero, Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive and The Long Christmas Ride Home, which helped establish both the playwrights and the plays.
Mark Brokaw also directed New York and Broadway productions of After Miss Julie, Cry-Baby, The Constant Wife, Reckless and New York premieres of works by David Auburn, Eric Begosian, Charles Busch (Olive and the Bitter Herbs), Keith Bunin, Julia Cho, Kevin Elyot, Craig Lucas (The Dying Gaul), Eduardo Machado, Nicky Silver, and Wendy Wasserstein. Regional work includes at Yale Repertory, Guthrie, Seattle Rep, Center Theatre Group, Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, Steppenwolf, Sundance Theatre Lab, Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration, and the O'Neill Theatre Conference. He has also directed at London's Donmar Warehouse, Dublin's Gate Theatre, and the Sydney Opera House. He is the artistic director or the Yale Institute for Musical Theatre and the artistic associate at Roundabout Theatre in New York.
Brokaw has assembled a Broadway design and creative team including scenic designer Allen Moyer (Broadway: After Miss Julie, Thurgood, The Little Dog Laughed, Grey Gardens, 12 Angry Men); costume designer Michael Krass (Broadway: The Lyons, After Miss Julie, After the Night and the Music, The Man Who Had All the Luck); lighting designer David Lander (Broadway: The Winslow Boy, The Heiress, The Lyons, 33 Variations, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo); and sound designer Jon Gottlieb (Master Class, QED, George Gershwin Alone).
Miklos Laszlo (originally Nicholaus Leitner May 20, 1903 – April 19, 1973) is best remembered for Illatszertar, also known as Parfumerie, which was the basis for the films The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime, and You've Got Mail and the Broadway musical She Loves Me. Born in Hungary in 1903, Laszlo was raised in a riches-to-rags entertainment family during wartime Budapest. In his younger years he knew playwright Ferenc Molnár whose Liliom became Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, and in his young adult life was both a budding playwright and unexpectedly the sole provider for his mother and eight siblings when his father died suddenly. He turned to a host of jobs – candy-maker, collar and necktie salesman and agent, script typist, clerk and even a petroleum factory worker to help raise the family, all while continuing to write.
Just into his thirties, his first three-act play, Legboldogabb Ember (The Happiest Man), an ironically titled play about an embittered factory worker and his interior dream-life, won him the prestigious Hungarian Royal Academy Award for Literature in 1934, the Hungarian equivalent of the American Pulitzer Prize. A Jew, he left Hungary behind in 1938 for America, and was able to established himself in the lower Manhattan east side Hungarian community; a year later he married Florence Herrman, an aspiring young actress and the daughter of a successful entrepreneur — a Cunard Line travel agent, landlord and financial exchange merchant.
The English language Parfumerie had its premiere in 2009 with the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, in a new adaptation by E.P. Dowdall, Laszlo's nephew, which took the property back to its original form exploring with equal emphasis, both the story of the young lovers as well as the troubled marriage of the shop owner. It has also been produced by the Toronto Soulpepper Theatre Company. Laszlo's screenplay Katherine became the 1948 MGM film The Big City starring Margaret O'Brien, Robert Preston, Danny Thomas and George Murphy. His play St. Lazar's Pharmacy received an American production, starring actress Miriam Hopkins; Pharmacy toured all over the United States in Canada.
As a special event, an exhibition on perfume entitled Timeless Scents: 1370-2013, a history of iconic fragrances through the ages is being created especially for The Wallis by Chandler Burr, former New York Times scent critic. The exhibition will be on view in the Lovelace Studio Theater during the engagement of Parfumerie.


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Lol, I love that you hate Mouth and Millie...everyone I talk to on my end love them to pieces but I just find them really annoying because they created their own problems. They probably should have just have stayed wherever they had moved to at the beginning of this season, but what is OTH without Mouth??lovvetwilight wrote: And that was a PG way, and I agree, they should. But they won't. And I hate both of them, so I wouldn't mind if they went back to Omaha and I didin't have to see them again lol.
And for a second there I was like who in the world is Kellar, but that was Tyler Hilton's character right? I only know some of the actors by their real names because they didn't say them enough on the show...
It totally sucks that there wasn't a new OTH on today I was looking forward to that because I get to take a designated break from Spanish hw, but it didn't happen today.
I feel as though they need to get back on track regarding Hayley instead of her sitting in the background just being a supportive wife when she's so much more than that. They don't even show her at school teaching anymore. Speaking of school, I really miss Q. It would have been great if he had a brother around the rest of the crews age, that way it can spice up the story line a bit.
I was watching some older episodes and it surprises me where the characters are now. Well, not Nathan and Hayley. We all knew they were going to be together, the fact that they are still together though is a surprise. Last season I had really wished that Lucas went through with marrying Lindsey because he pinned after Peyton way too long, and I just wanted him to stop trying.


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I grew up on a dead-end street in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where remnants of swampy forest surrounded the old wood-frame homes. Live oaks lined the streets. Spanish moss dripped from their branches. Snakes coiled under the ancient azaleas that edged the yards.
It was, in fact, the perfect setting for a haunted Halloween night. And there was this one house, you know, where the yard was so dense with bush and tree that it could barely be seen through its thicket of shadow. To trick-or-treat, you walked up the dark sidewalk toward a faint glow on the front porch, just the one lit window. The air hummed with passing insects and the porch creaked like Dracula's coffin under your feet, the slow, dry eek of old wood.
Reader, you had to beware on Halloween night. Just a block over lived a maniacal dentist who liked to dress up like a werewolf on October 31 and fill his front hall with clouds of drifting fog created by dropping dry ice (super-chilled chunks of carbon dioxide) into water. Bwa-ha-ha, he would chortle as he opened the door, as the chilly wisps of fog drifted out around him.
But this silent house, dressed in darkness, was so much scarier. We children would gather in front of the gate, unable to walk alone through those prowling shadows. The crowd would form on the sidewalk: tiny pillowcase ghosts and jeweled princesses, small pirates and glittery fairies. When someone decided we'd achieved a safe number, we'd start edging toward the green door at the top of the porch steps. Whispering about what the old man who lived there would hand out - what dangerous treats might wait for us there.
This was the 1960s and even then, people told stories, warned their children, about the psychopaths out there who might drop poisoned candy into one's hands. In the long history of the holiday, truthfully, this has almost never happened. But the very nature of Halloween - the witch at the door, the monster in the closet - lends itself to such ideas. Wasn't there a crazy woman on Long Island in 1964, after all, who handed out arsenic to trick-or-treaters she thought too old for the candy hunt?
It hardly mattered that as Snopes points out, she didn't kill anyone. And her deliberate poisoning attempt seems to be an odd exception to the general goodwill of the holiday. The psychopath at the door is an urban myth. Most of the poisonous Halloween stories turn out to be mistakes or far more personal tragedies. The worst is that of a Texas father who murdered his 8-year-old son in 1974 for insurance money.
He did so by putting cyanide into into the fruit-flavored sugar inside a Pixie Stick, one of the child's favorites. In an attempt to make the death seem like a random poisoning, the father - Ronald Clark O'Bryan - also gave cyanide-laced candy to his daughter and three other children in his Deer Park neighborhood. These other lethal treats were collected by police as (fortunately) the children hadn't touched them.
O'Bryan - nicknamed The Candyman by the Texas media - was executed by lethal injection 10 years after his son's death. But people remembered. And they forgot that the worst outbreak of Halloween candy poisoning had nothing to do suspected killers. The biggest poison outbreak - linked to Halloween of 1950 - was simply caused by orange food coloring used by candy manufacturers.
Scores of children across the country fell ill with severe diarrhea and welting rashes after eating candy and popcorn balls tinted by the FDA-approved Orange Dye No. 1 (also known as FD&C Orange No. 1, Acid Orange 20, and Orange 1). The "FD&C" indicates that the dye is used in food, drugs and cosmetics. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Orange 1 was used primarily in candy, cookies, cakes, carbonated beverages, and meat products such as hot dogs.
As federal investigators would discover upon investigation, the dye was also a rash-inducing occupational health hazard. Orange 1 belonged to a group of seven dyes first approved by the federal government in the year 1906, the first year that this country began regulating food safety. All seven of these dyes were coal-tar dyes, derived originally from the hydrocarbon byproducts of processed coal. Orange 1, for instance, contained benzene, today one of our better-known toxic compounds.
But at that Halloween moment in 1950, no one had thought much about colored food. In fact, officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration suddenly realized that no one had really taken a good look at these turn-of-the-century food dyes for almost 50 years. The FDA promptly launched an investigation that found that, yes, Orange 1 was definitely poisonous: An oral dose of one gram of the dye per one kilogram of food killed two out of five mice in a day. A 20-week-experiment mixing the dye into rat food killed three of eight test rats.
The researchers also found that manufacturers were tossing the dye into candy corn and sugary little pumpkins with surprising enthusiasm. According to a 1954 article in The New York Times, one piece of candy was 1,500 parts per million pure Orange 1. Two years later, in 1956, the FDA delisted Orange 1 as well as Orange 2 (used to deepen the color of oranges) and Red Dye No. 32. Twelve other food colorings have been delisted since that time. This doesn't reassure everyone; consumer advocates still worry over the health effects of food coloring.
But - take at least this reassurance: It's been a long time since we saw children falling ill across the country because they indulged in an extra handful of candy corn, not realizing that its cheerful orange was a signal for trouble. We're mostly smart enough to realize that regulating food safety offers more protection than worrying about the crazy man behind the door.
Which brings me back to my friends and I hesitating at that shadowy gate on a Halloween night in Louisiana. Let me tell you what happened, Halloween after Halloween. Slowly, we inched down the sidewalk, creaked up the steps, quavered at the door. Slowly, the door pulled open and the slightly tottering elderly man opened the screen to drop glossy red apples into our bags.
Every year it added an extra thrill to the night. But, reader, you had to beware on Halloween night. I'm almost positive they were just bright fall apples. But I'll never know because our parents wouldn't let us eat them.


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As audiences, when we speak of performance we are speaking most often about the glimpses acquired in the act of witnessing. We are speaking to our experience as it lies bound up in the delineation of time and space that is the act of performance, the curve that captures us as we are moved through the phases of the work. Accompanying this journey is a kind of willful ignorance, a reliance on the media at hand, the phone, the body, the text, the document, to describe what has escaped us, the event as it captures our imagination in its unfolding or to mediate in the moment of witnessing so that we might better understand what's happening. There is not one way to know a performance work, there are many, and it is for that reason that the quality of performance is brought to light through the normalizing tendency of the archive.
Performance documents provide us with the frozen instant, a single moment in the event of the performance. They are tools to help our critical faculties, providing us a moment to rest and to consider what it is that has happened. This perhaps makes the most sense in relationship to the lived experience. The relationship between what my body knows through the performer's body, a knowledge acquired through an empathetic transference of meaning(s) from the performer's body to the audience's and the images my mind recognizes through the documentation. We would be hard pressed to understand either, the experience or the document, without the other. Without the accompanying bodily knowledge the performance document hangs in suspended animation.
Once collected these documents form a group of materials that more often than not speak more to the interruptions of the art context than to the actual work. It would be impossible to ask of the text, photograph, moving image, body and the like to preserve for us what we can only ever hint at. Audiences and performers will always be bested by the performance as it unfurls itself before both. What we know of performative acts after witnessing and enacting them is but a fleeting memory of having done so or if very lucky, a lingering sensation. One that may motivate us, as others have suggested, to go forth and act out what we have experienced in the performance space.
Archive are a technology of bureaucracy. They are way stations for data and accumulated temporality, flattened proofs of the "official†experience. The system of the archive itself is responsible for this kind of alienation. Categories, decimal numbers, and white gloves are methods of sanitation that work to preserve the individual's experience/state requirement. Once cataloged, memories of childhood, legal forms, receipts, and other accouterments are neatly laid beneath layers of fabric and cardboard. So precious are these relics that the archive must continually migrate them from one outmoded media to the next. The performance relic, however, subverts the safety of the archive. Not all archival material functions in the same way. There is a difference between documents that prove our life/work and documents that preserve the performance event, even if they both document performative tasks whose symbolic functions make permanent an abstraction. The way a notary's signature on a form makes official the binding language of the agreement. The difference between the two is a result of the social quality of the experience. Once placed within the archive the quotidian document does little to extend the life of the proceeding. This is due to the individual nature of what it documents. The experience of going through a live event within the collectivity of the art context is a social endeavor that expands the role of the document through the sensations and collective consciousness of the group.
It is the sociality of the performance experience that prevents the performance document from falling into the normalizing mechanisms of the archive. The experience of having been to a performance and then seeing the documentation of it, even if what one finds is outside of their memory of the event, finds its fulfillment in the muscular memory of the one handling the document. By this I mean that it is easier to imagine what might have happened in a particular performance after having gone to see one, even if the two are unrelated in image and form, it is the remaining sensation of the event that is rearticulated in the body of the audience upon resuscitation by the performance document. Having spent the entirety of my life involved in performance in one way or another it is difficult for me to imagine how the experience might play out to one who is naive of the ways of the performance event but I would like to suggest here that one of the things that performance does as an art form is to simultaneously imagine and enact living alternatives and to remediate the experience of such imaginings. To present documents of that process in an entirely new context, to potentially naive audiences, such as the library, school, or museum is to depoliticize them and reinscribe them with a whole new set of contextual politics. A process that imbues the document with a different set of concerns that surely tints the experience of the document.
The performance document is possessed by the audience. It is they who own the experience that it represents. To place it within the repository it to attempt to use someone else's signature to write your name. It may be in your possession but it is not fully yours.
- What can be done with dance? Pt. 4: taisha paggett - April 15, 2014
- By Invitation: notes on midwestern conceptualism - March 12, 2014
- What can be done with dance? Part 3 - February 12, 2014


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Bills sale: Trump, Bon Jovi, Pegulas in final negotiations
BUFFALO, N.Y. — At least three groups, including Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula, have entered final negotiations to buy the NFL's Bills.
Three people close to discussions told The Associated Press on Tuesday that New York City real estate mogul Donald Trump and a Toronto-based group led by rocker Jon Bon Jovi also have received formal documents in advance of a deadline for bids to be submitted by Monday. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the sale is being conducted privately.
Two other people familiar with the process say former Sabres owner Tom Golisano is not prepared to submit a bid.
Proskauer Rose, the law firm representing late-Bills owner Ralph Wilson's estate, distributed what are called purchase agreements to each of the groups. The agreements are binding documents that require groups to submit a formal bid as well as establish the terms and conditions of a potential sale.
The team is being sold after Wilson — the Bills founder and Hall of Fame inductee — died in March.
The Pegulas remain the front-runners. They have a net worth of more than $3.5 billion, and have the support of local business leaders and public officials because of their commitment to keep the Bills in western New York.
The Bon Jovi group remains intact despite several recent reports of it splintering. The group is rounded out by Larry Tanenbaum, chairman of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, and the Rogers family, which controls Rogers Communications.
The biggest obstacle that has consistently faced Bon Jovi and his partners is the question regarding their intentions to possibly relocate the franchise north of the border.
Under the Bills' lease that runs through the 2022 season, the team is essentially locked into playing at Ralph Wilson Stadium through the 2019 season. There is a one-time exception that would allow them to break the agreement for just under $28.4 million in 2020.
Attorneys representing each of the groups have spent the past week exchanging information with Proskauer Rose in order to complete the 80-page documents.
The bidding process will remain open for groups to increase their bids until a candidate is selected.
Once identified, the prospective owner would have to go through an extensive background check conducted by an NFL-contracted security firm. The candidate would then need two-thirds majority approval from the league's 31 owners.
It's unclear whether the sale and vetting process can be completed in time for league meetings early next month. The approval may have to be pushed back to NFL meetings scheduled for December.


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UNC School of Medicine establishes two regional campuses
The expansion enables UNC to increase its medical school class size from 160 students to 170 in 2011 and to 180 in 2012 by sending some third- and fourth-year medical students to Asheville and Charlotte to complete their clinical education.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine today announced the expansion of its medical school to two regional campuses in Asheville and Charlotte, continuing to fulfill its mission to care for the people of North Carolina.
The expansion will help combat the expected shortage of physicians in the coming years. According to the American Association of Medical Colleges, the number of providers is expected to decline by approximately 30 percent in the next decade. In contrast, there will be more people who need care for longer periods of time as the population grows and ages. Expanding the School's presence in Asheville and Charlotte will increase UNC's capacity to train more physicians, with a focus on training for practice in underserved areas, for which the need is most urgent.
The expansion enables UNC to increase its medical school class size from 160 students to 170 in 2011 and to 180 in 2012 by sending some third- and fourth-year medical students to Asheville and Charlotte to complete their clinical education.
"In these tough economic times, I am pleased we have come together to maintain our commitment to caring for the people of our state," said William L. Roper, MD, MPH, dean of the UNC School of Medicine and CEO of UNC Health Care. "We hope the exposure opportunities provided by our partners' networks throughout the Carolinas will inspire more graduates to pursue career opportunities in under-served communities."
The Asheville Regional Campus, now in its second year, will operate in collaboration with Mission Health System and the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC). Mission will also commit $7 million to establish a dedicated center for all medical education activities on the hospital campus. Currently 10 medical students are enrolled at the Asheville campus, which utilizes an innovative patient-centered curriculum now being replicated across the state.
The Charlotte Regional Campus will operate in collaboration with Carolinas HealthCare System and UNC Charlotte. The campus will be located at Carolinas Medical Center, which has provided clinical education for third- and fourth-year UNC medical students for more than 40 years. Currently, 22 UNC students are enrolled at the Charlotte campus. Carolinas HealthCare will spend $4 million to renovate facilities for the medical students.
"We are grateful to our partners for engaging their resources and expertise to move health care in North Carolina forward," said Roper. "Within these already-established training environments, we are confident that the UNC School of Medicine will continue to grow and thrive."
The expansion plan was originally developed in 2007 and included a full expansion of the school to 230 students. This plan was put on hold for two years due to economic hardship. Full expansion to 230 students will require additional capital and operational investments from the state.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct.. 14, 2008) - The ETSU volleyball team was defeated by Tennessee in three sets Tuesday night in Brooks Gym, 3-0 (14-25, 16-25, 20-25).
"Our team did some really good things at times," said head coach Lindsey Devine. "When we slowed the ball down it really put us in a good offensive position. I was glad to see everyone get some court time against a big opponent."
The Bucs (7-11, 4-6 A-Sun) were led offensively by Lauren Baufield (Plymouth, Minn.) as she tallied eight kills on the night. Mallory Kiley (Palm Harbor, Fla.) and McKayla Barber (Columbus, Ind.) each had five kills for the Bucs.
Whitney Cogburn (Kingsport, Tenn.) led ETSU with 18 assists, while freshman Jen Neice (Allen, Texas) led the team defensively with 11 digs.
"We knew that Tennessee is a good program with athletic players, and we said before the game that we had to come out and play strong and not let our opponent dictate play," Devine said. "Even though we lost, every time we step on the court against a good team we get better and better. We are just so young, and once we understand what we are capable of we will make great strides every time we step out on the court.
ETSU is back in action on Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. as the Bucs head to Macon, Ga. to take on conference opponent Mercer. Please visit www.ETSUBucs.com for more information on ETSU volleyball and all other Buccaneer athletic news.


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By WALLACE IMMEN
The problem with being a tourist in Venice these days is that there are a lot of other tourists in Venice these days. Crossing the lagoon-side bridge that parallels the Bridge of Sighs by day is a lesson in fluid dynamics. If even one person stops at the top of the arch to catch their breath, it causes a chain reaction that stops everyone in their tracks.
The throng around Piazza San Marco waiting to get into the Basilica San Marco and the Doge's Palace is so huge and persistent that it threatens to evict the resident flocks of pigeons. It doesn't help that there are huge hoardings around restorations in the square, creating the need to do a flying wedge between tour groups coming the other way.
There is a time-tested route through the maze of between the two main attractions in La Serenessema: per Rialto or Per San Marco that by day becomes more of a queue than a stroll. Fortunately there are alternatives that can still provide a look at the way life was in Venice before the shops along the main routes were all turned into emporiums for Armani and Gucci.
With almost two full days in Venice before Crystal Serenity sailed, Crystal Cruises provided a free shuttle service from the port to the heart of the action near San Marco. From there Lisa and I chose to go on routes less travelled. Rather than head left into San Marco from the lagoon landing, we headed right, toward the cathedral of San Zaccaria that was originally built in the ninth century to enshrine the reputed remains of the father of John the Baptist. The Gothic church decorated with paintings that include several by Giovanni Bellini is on a square that has one of the oldest bell towers in Venice. Best of all, you can have the square practically to yourself except for a few stray pigeons or some kids practicing soccer.
From the square in both directions, narrow passageways lead to other squares where real Venetians actually still live and shop. Tourists rarely head into the streets here because they only have a couple of hours and want to see the big sights. But the quiet courtyards and squares with their neighbourhood churches and homes with elaborately ornate windows — their shutters the original Venetian blinds — are what makes Venice still a viable city rather than an amusement park.
It is difficult to get too lost because every time you get to water you can see which direction is back to the lagoon. When you get to an intersection, the one with stores and hotels is the main street. A detailed map will help and you can always ask locals who are happy to help provide directions but which often consist of "go right and then left and then straight 10 meters and you can't miss it."
Invariably I did miss a turn and had to ask again but that's part of the fun because Venice is so compact that you never can go too far away from the center. And there were always wonderful sights along the way like gondolas navigating tight canals, elderly couples dressed in their best to go to mass and kids playing soccer. The local stores sell bright bouquets of flowers and colourful glassware or finely made masks that go for half the price that they do in the shops along the main tourist maze.
One way or the other you will eventually find yourself either walking back into the tourist traffic around San Marco or the Rialto and can still experience the Venice that most visitors see. But to wander off the beaten path will give you peace and quiet and an experience few others will have.
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ONARCHITECTURE- Green monster? BAR vote highlights doubts over 201 Avon
When Time Magazine decided to focus on the green architecture movement in 2001, reporters sought out Randy Croxton. His National Resources Defense Council building in New York City is considered a seminal project in the green architecture movement, one of the first American projects to embrace the ecology of a building. Since then, his Croxton Collaborative Architects have become world-renowned experts on green building, even designing (along with locally based William McDonough) Wal-Mart's first environmentally friendly store in Lawrence, Kansas.
However, when Croxton came to Charlottesville in December for his "BAR moment"– in local architect Bill Atwood's phrase– planners seemed decidedly unimpressed.
At a December 19 meeting, the Board of Architectural Review approved by the slimmest margin Croxton's design for a 9-story luxury green condominium between the barn-like headquarters of Beck-Cohen heating and air-conditioning and the CSX railroad tracks along Water Street. According to Croxton's website, the building will be the first residential building in America to win "platinum" status from a group called Leadership on Energy and Environmental Design, meaning it will hit a high note on all five major keys of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality.
Still, the BAR peppered Croxton with stipulations about the color of window frames and bricks, and suggested subtle design changes that would keep the building from looking too much like just another mondo condo. Clearly, some BAR members were unhappy with the sheer mass of the building, which rises steeply beside the Belmont Bridge. In the end, a single vote kept the project alive: the BAR voted 4-3 to approve.
"It's a difficult design problem for us," says BAR vice-chair Syd Knight, who voted against the project. "It's the first truly large building for that area, and some of us felt it would dwarf everything around it." Knight was concerned the building was too large to have any meaningful contextual relationship with the neighborhood, particularly the historic Beck-Cohen building, formerly a flour mill, which he thinks 201 Avon could "potentially overshadow." Knight concedes that that part of town could be destined for more vertical growth, but wants to see it happen slowly, carefully.
And what if this gigantic building gets built and nothing else nearby follows? "That prospect gave us all pause," he says.
BAR member Lynne Heetderks, who also voted no, worried that 201 Avon would "overwhelm" the old mill. Although she expressed some willingness to be persuaded about the mass of the building, in the end she felt the project showed a "lack of respect" for its historic neighbor.
And although Brian Hogg and BAR chair Fred Wolf voted for approval, Wolf said he was feeling only "fairly comfortable" with the project, while Hogg, who said he was comfortable with the size, mentioned he was "unhappy" with the design, which he called "extremely busy." Not exactly a rousing endorsement for the famous Mr. Croxton.
In principle, Knight thinks City planners are comfortable with the way development is evolving around the perimeter of the Mall– the area where most of the tall building projects in the pipeline are slated to arise– but says that architects and developers need to understand the City's desire to protect the integrity of neighborhoods.
Of course, outside the more idealistic issues of planning and design lurk a number of other concerns. As city planner Brian Haluska points out, BAR approval is only one of many hoops the project must jump through. Besides securing city approval for the site plan– a decision expected in November, and which includes studies on traffic, parking, and utilities– developers typically need to have 30 percent of their condos sold before a bank will approve a construction loan. As a consequence, there's the possibility that developers might decide the project isn't worth it. According to Haluska, builders have three years after a permit is issued to decide if they want to build.
Will people be willing to pay $200-$350 a square foot for a high-rise home on an industrial site abutting the railroad tracks and near the amphitheater? Haluska says the market's decision is not necessarily a big concern for the city, which still receives taxes from the property no matter what happens. But it's a major concern for builders. And as his prediction about when 201 Avon might get built not-so-subtly suggests, the fate of this green being is still uncertain.
"Hypothetically, 201 Avon could get built next spring," he says, "or five years from now... or never."
Too big? This mega-condo at 201 Avon Street passed BAR muster by a single vote in December.
From Croxton Collaborative Architects' website


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Harris Federation bids to run new Sutton school
The Harris Federation, a not-for-profit charity in its 25th year of running schools in London, is bidding to run a secondary free school in Sutton.
Sutton Council has secured part of the Sutton Hospital site for a new secondary school to be built. The Harris Federation, which runs 37 Primary and Secondary Academies in and around London, is one of the school providers being given the chance to run a school on this site. The Education Funding Agency will decide which provider is successful in its bid.
Because of the new school's location and proximity to the Royal Marsden, the Harris Federation aims to build a specialism in science and healthcare. The Federation has established links with London's top universities and medical schools, which would give students access to a wealth of scientific resources. This would include the chance to use Imperial College London's latest specialist laboratory equipment.
Three quarters of Harris secondary academies inspected by Ofsted so far have been rated Outstanding.
Sir Daniel Moynihan, CEO of the Harris Federation, said,
"As well as having an exceptional record in secondary education throughout London, we are part of this community through our Harris Junior Academy Carshalton. We are proposing an ambitious and aspirational new school that ensures many more local parents can access outstanding secondary education for their sons and daughters."
The school is planned to open in September 2018, with 195 places on offer in the first year. It would begin with a Year Seven and grow by a year group at a time, although the Harris Federation would seek to open a Sixth Form as early as possible.
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I bought some green from an online shop and wrote a review of my resulting roast.
I was very pleasantly surprised to find a 200g bag of Jamaican Blue Mountain delivered to my door as a thank you for the review from the shop....how nice is that?
I am keenly aware that this stuff is in the more expensive bracket and as I only have 200g I am keen to get this roast right.
I looked on line and the suggestion is a medium roast (rather vague).
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed?
(I'm using the Behmor 1600 drum roaster)


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Every once in a while, an old commercial pops up in my cluttered attic of a brain, and it usually takes a day or two to stop re-running the jingle or catch-phrase over and over… sometimes writing it down helps, sometimes not…
When I designed the recipe for this beer I was thinking I needed a strong light-colored lager, hoppy but with some malt body, smooth and slightly toasty in flavor. Basically a jumped-up Bohemian Pilsner, I decided to call it "Imperial", hopping on a PR bandwagon that really makes no historical sense. That's when the voices started repeating the closing line from a commercial that must date back some 40 years – "For about what you pay for the King of Beers, you can have Tuborg, the beer of Danish Kings..". The commercial closed on a gorgeous glass drinking horn full of a clear golden beer, sitting on rocks amid crashing waves, if I remember correctly. The connection was immediate and obvious – here I was going to brew a beer that would outrank either the king of beers or the beer of kings – it was the Emperor of Beers!
There is no such thing, traditionally, as an Imperial Pilsner. The only beer that was brewed specifically for an Emperor, probably, was the Russian Stout style. Over recent years, as styles have been resurrected, the term "Imperial" has been used (overused) to describe a stronger version of an existing style. As long as everyone understands that, no one will get hurt. What I brewed today is an abomination, a monster, a beer that should not exist. Well, I am probably exaggerating, but it is not a beer you will find on many beer-store shelves.
Imperial Pilsner
5 gallons, all-grain
- 9 lbs. Bohemian Pilsner malt
- 1 lb. toasted Bohemian Pilsner malt
- 1/2 lb. carapils malt
- 1/2 lb. carafoam malt
- 1 oz. Spalter hop pellets (@5% aa)
- 1 oz. Tettnanger hop pellets (@3.5% aa)
- 1 oz. Saaz hop pellets (@4% aa) recultured yeast from Arcobraü Zwickel Lager
- 3/4 cup corn sugar or 1 cup extra-light DME (for priming)
Toast 1 lb. pilsner malt on a cookie sheet, 15 minutes at 375°F. Crush grains. Heat 15 quarts water to 164°F. Dough in and hold mash at 152°F for 60 minutes. Heat another 14 quarts water to 168°F. Begin runoff and sparge, collecting 26 quarts of sweet wort. Bring to boil, add Spalter hops. Boil 15 minutes, add Tettnanger hops. Boil 40 minutes, add Saaz hops. Boil 5 more minutes (60 total), remove from heat. Chill to 70°F and take a hydrometer reading. Pitch yeast, seal and ferment warm (65°F) for six to eight days. Rack to secondary, lager cool (40 – 45°F) for three weeks. Prime and bottle, age cold (35 – 40°F) for six weeks.
IBU's: 38
Note on yeast: Yes, this is the same yeast culture I used in my Bohemian Pilsner and my Schwarzbier. For the former, I collected the dregs from several bottles of the actual beer and fed it to build up a sizable pitching slurry. For the latter, I harvested a pint of dregs from the primary fermenter when I racked the Pilsner and again built up a large volume of slurry, a process I repeated again over the last few days leading up to today's brew.
Note on toasted malt: It is not particularly traditional to include toasted malts in a beer like a pilsner. However, when my wife visited her cousin Janet on Long Island last summer, she brought back a really yummy local brew, Blue Point Brewing's Toasted Lager. In the back of my mind I have been thinking about a clone of that beer, and that no doubt influenced this recipe.